Jesus not named Christ during his life in the body, .

SECTION II.

70

Jesus himself did not profess to be Christ in the sense contended

for by his worshipers,

77

SECTION III.

Jesus accepted the doctrine and fulfilled the character and mission

of a Messiah, only in a natural and rational sense,

CHAPTER II.

CHRISTISM NOT THE GOSPEL OF JESUS,

.110

SECTION I.

Jesus had nothing to do with making the Bible, nor did he

authorize the use which Christians have made of it,

.112

SECTION II.

Jesus did not institute the Church nor any of its ordinances, . 120

PART THIRD.

WHAT REASON HAS TO DO WITH THE

GOSPEL OF JESUS.

CHAPTER I.

THE BIOGRAPHERS OF JESUS,

. 223

SECTION I.

The Biographers of Jesus are worthy of confidence as sincere and

honest men,

SECTION II.

.224

The Biographers of Jesus were competent witnesses of his external

example and teachings; but as to the import of these, they

attempted nothing more than to recite their natural impres-

sions,

.230

SECTION III.

The Biographers of Jesus lost sight of the rational part of his

Gospel, for want of ability to comprehend it,

232

SECTION II.

Jesus a Preeminent Example of Humanity,

251

SECTION III.

Jesus a Medium of Celestial Revelations and Angelic Influences, 260

THE

MISTAKE OF CHRISTENDOM.

PART FIRST.

WHAT THE CHURCH HAS HAD TO DO WITH JESUS.

"Jesus answered them, and said, Verily, verily I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled."-JOHN VI. 26.

In this disquisition on the doings of the Church, I would not implicate the steepled edifices of New England, nor of any other land, whose tapering spires are apt to lead up the thoughtful to realms of a higher life. There is no lie in those ecclesiastical hands, pointing as they do with exquisite conspicuity to the faithful monitions of Man's most eminent, most slighted teacher: "Labor not for the meat which perisheth;" "Lay up for yourselves treas